Monday, May 4, 2015

Bernie Sanders is suggesting a way that we can decrease the corporate greed in America - form co-ops in business.

Today, there are 11,000 worker-owned companies in the United States, and there are up to 120 million Americans who are involved in some form of co-op if you include credit unions in the tally.

The Sanders campaign states:

We
need to develop new economic models to increase job creation and
productivity. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to corporations which
ship our jobs to China and other low-wage countries, we need to provide
assistance to workers who want to purchase their own businesses by
establishing worker-owned cooperatives. Study after study shows that
when workers have an ownership stake in the businesses they work for,
productivity goes up, absenteeism goes down and employees are much more
satisfied with their jobs.